The Step-By-Step Guide To Remote Onboarding (Our Exact Process)

A smooth onboarding process has long been recognized as a key to engaging new employees, boosting productivity, and reducing employee attrition. According to SHRM, 69% of employees are more likely to stay with an organization for three years if they have a great onboarding experience, and organizations with a standardized onboarding process experience 50% greater productivity from new workers. The reasons are obvious: When new…

8 Mistakes Of Internal Communication In The Virtual Workplace

Internal communication challenges in the remote work environment can significantly impact productivity. When a company doesn’t focus on internal communication, remote employees may lose motivation and fall behind on assignments and tasks. On top of that, customers get poor service. More and more organizations are adopting remote work models. If such a model is well-managed, it helps reduce costs while maintaining high-quality work. Communication is…

Amazon’s Return To Office Policy & Timeline (May 2023)

Return To The Office: News & Data Center Chapter 1: Fortune 100’s Return To The Office Chapter 2: Companies Reducing Office Space Chapter 3: San Francisco’s Return To Office Chapter 4: New York City’s Return To Office Chapter 5: Return To Office & Quitting Statistics Chapter 6: Return To Office Incentives, Bribes, Perks Chapter 7: Why Are Companies Going Back To The Office? Chapter 8:…

The Ultimate Work Schedule Template Library (2023)

Choose from one of 37 free work schedule templates organized by category – employee & staff schedules, shifts, corporate schedules, hybrid schedules, or schedules for entrepreneurs. Customize the template in Excel, Google Sheets, Canva, or PDF, and get it ready to print. Work Schedule Templates You need a way to create a great schedule for work. We’ve got a library full of work schedule templates…

The Best Standing Desk With Drawers: 7 Front-Runners Reviewed

You’re in the market for a standing desk with drawers. You love the sit-stand idea, but need some storage to put your laptop away at the end of the night or store some pens and notebooks. As you do your research you’ve been thinking, “Why do none of these popular standing desks have any drawers at all?”  It’s a pretty niche, specific product and only…

Return To Office Plans For Every Fortune 100 [May 2023]

In early 2020, the office was turned off like a light switch. Anyone who could work from home was instructed or recommended to do just that. This was a temporary measure to fight a pandemic. But the temporary shift from in-office work to remote work turned into a massive, unintentional experiment to test where and how work could be done. Like in any experiment, the experimental group…

12 Zoom Backgrounds From “The Office” (U.S. Version)

(Hey, there’s me in front of the conference room from ‘The Office’ background!) The U.S. version of “The Office” may have debuted close to 20 years ago (it premiered on NBC in 2005!), but its lessons continue to impact the workplace. This is the show that taught us why it’s so important to have fire drills. It also likely inspired thousands of workplace pranks, some…